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Twenty + change 03 : emerging Canadian design practices

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This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full color images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.

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Context and content: The memoir of a fortunate architect

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In this personal account of A.J. Diamond’s life and work, he shares how he came to be the founder of the leading architecture firm Diamond Schmitt, one of Canada’s most successful architecture companies. He also explains his principles of design, which at their core are about making a positive impact in the world, considering the needs of the content, client, and context. Diamond gives insight into his design principles in relation to some of his most notable projects, including the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, la Maison symphonique de Montréal, the Mariinsky II Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Diamond also chronicles his family ancestry, his childhood in South Africa, from his birth in his grandfather’s study in the small provincial town of Piet Retief on the borders of Eswatini (Swaziland) and Mozambique, to his university days at the University of Cape Town and Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania. His memoir traces his immigration to the U.S. and, eventually, Canada as well as his growing architectural practice in Toronto, where he focused on the issues facing his chosen city.

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Twenty + change 01: emerging Toronto design practices

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Twenty + Change 01 is the first publication documenting a biennial exhibition of emerging designers working in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by twenty-one Toronto designers rethink public and domestic space, new technology, and innovative materials and effects. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full-colour images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners. Published simultaneously with Twenty+Change 02 .

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Twenty + change 02: emerging Canadian design practices

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Published simultaneously with Twenty+Change 01, Twenty + Change 02 is the second publication documenting a biennial exhibition of emerging design practices from across Canada working in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by twenty-one Canadian designers rethink urban infrastructure, propose new models for public space and housing, and examine the unique relationships between the single-family house and landscape. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full-colour images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.

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Architecture e+c: works of elin+carmen corneil 1958-2008

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This publication documents the travelling exhibition of the Corneils' work which opened as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Carleton School of Architecture in October 2008. The work is drawn from the Corneil archive at the Canadian Architectural Archives at the University of Calgary, supplemented by practice documents.

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Éric Gauthier vu par/by Denis Bilodeau : architecture, trame/grid, index

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À des kilomètres du vanity-show qui se pratique dans la profession, Éric Gauthier vu par Denis Bilodeau : Architecture, trame, index, c’est beaucoup plus qu’un simple survol, livré au public projet par projet, en ordre prévisible. Ici, le chercheur et l’architecte, accomplissant là un patient travail intellectuel et analytique, ont fouillé ensemble la matière pour l’organiser différemment, sur le principe d’un index conçu par le commissaire.

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Full spectrum : the architecture of Jeremy Sturgess

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Governor-General award winning architect Jeremy Sturgess recently celebrated thirty years in practice in Calgary, where he has been based his whole career. During that time, Sturgess has made a major contribution to transforming the architectural face of the city, from individual houses to large-scale public projects such as the Calgary Water Centre, the Grand Theatre, and Calgarys most recent downtown LRT stations. This publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted examination of Sturgesss architecture and urban design, and assesses his contribution to Canadian architecture generally and Calgary architecture in particular. Editor Geoffrey Simmins has gathered perspectives from a number of individuals with whom Sturgess has enjoyed long-term professional relationships - an artist, an urban designer, an architect colleague, an architectural critic, and a journalist. Along with reflections on Sturgesss personality, philosophy, and creative growth, these contributors provide in-depth discussions of a number of Sturgesss most celebrated projects. Simmins himself has drawn on Sturgesss papers and several personal interviews to craft an insightful introduction to the volume. Illustrated with architectural line drawings and with photos by photographer Robert Lemermeyer.

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Peter Dickinson

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Every aspect of Dickinson's life was large, from his height to his wife - a former model - from his ambition to his social and professional standing. England could not contain him. He needed a larger stage and that is what he found here. The architecture he set into motion was like him: big, fresh, and bold. It was not only modern, it had an audacious individualistic style that twisted and turned in new and magnificent ways. This is the first major book on the Canadian architect Peter Dickinson.

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Studioeast 2009

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A student journal of work from the architecture program at Dalhousie University.

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Storming the old boys' citadel: two pioneer women architects of nineteeth century north america

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This book focuses on the lives and works of two of the very first women of European American ancestry to practice architecture in North America during the 19th century. Mother Joseph du Sacré-Coeur, a Sister of Providence—born Esther Pariseau, in St. Elzéar, Quebec—is credited with works built in the present states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, northern Oregon, and in the province of British Columbia. For her contributions, Mother Joseph was honored by the State of Washington as one of two people to represent it in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, DC. Louise Blanchard Bethune designed and built works in the Buffalo, New York area. Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel follows the evolving histories of two Revival-styled multiuse public buildings considered to be these women’s major works.